Innovation’s Role in Learning and Development Training
In my last post, I touched on the important role of critical thinking, particularly in the context of maximizing the effectiveness and output of...
For More Effective Leadership Training, Summon Your Inner Child
In previous posts, I’ve described Core Abilities that shape effective leadership training, including critical thinking. Two of the most prominent...
Do Training and Professional Development Programs Focus Enough on Critical Thinking?
According to a 1997 report from Idaho, thousands of American deaths have been attributed to the chemical compound dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO), mainly...
Business Simulations for More Purposeful Thinking
About ten years ago, my colleagues and I realized that our challenge as learning and development consultants was to develop a technology that would...
Mapping Impact for More Effective Leadership Training
About five years ago, my colleagues and I at The Regis Company created a process called impact mapping to drive more effective leadership development...
Successful Leadership Development Training Programs Target Core Abilities
As mentioned in my last post, The Regis Company has organized and mapped how-to-think patterns to one or more thinking abilities that we refer to as...
Professional Development Training Programs Often Overlook Two Main Thinking Paradigms
As I’ve noted in previous posts, creating hundreds of professional development training programs over the past two decades has led to the conclusion...
Using Business Performance Analytics to Identify Value Workers
Over the course of one hundred business simulations, my team and I documented patterns of thought that helped us identify individuals we call Value...
Four Top Factors That Derail Corporate Leadership Training
Last week, I posted about the four primary derailers we commonly encounter when implementing corporate leadership training programs - bias,...
Is Your Corporate Leadership Training Being Derailed? Four Ways to Improve Focus in Business Simulations.
Derailers are the primary reason why employees make poor decisions and lose focus during corporate leadership training programs. They can impact...
Seeing Through the Chaos: A Case Study in Complexity and Executive Leadership Development
A few years ago, I received an early morning call from a colleague, Beth, the COO of a large corporation, whose situation exemplified the complex...
Linear Thinking and Corporate Leadership Training
“Failure does not strike like a bolt from the blue,” said Dietrich Dörner, emeritus professor of General and Theoretical Psychology at Otto-Friedrich...